I think if I had read the instructions carefully, wasn't so presumptuous in thinking "I don't need no stinking instructions", it would have come out reat. It was going along nicely after I did read the instructions, but my wife put a pile of mail and book on it and flatted the assembled piece out. The metal could probably be straightened out, and redone, but I lost interest it in. I like blimps, and have built a few paper ones, (they make great gliders if you add a litle weight to the noce!) but I'd rather have one of the neat ones like Starbuck made.
The Cameo Silhouette pissed me off as I spent a good 8 hours trying to get it to work, called them up, they said nothing was wrong. I spend eight more hours, called them up again, got a different tech, and he asked me to perform one test. I did, he said the results of that test showed it was defective, and they would be sending me another one. You make to take the model and trace out the edge you want cut with control points. It is extremely laborious., for one model. If you were going to make a bunch of the same model, then it would be great. Pepakura has a program you can buy the works with the Cameo cutter and cuts the parts out automatically. I never tried it because I never work with Pepakura. The machine does do what it says, but it does take a lot of work. The company, by the way, are an extremely nice group of people, they were extremely apologetic. Wasting 16 hours of my time trying to get it works just has turned me off to try and bother with it. It is essentially brand new, with maybe 1 hour of cutting, but I have no inclination to work with it again in the near future.